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Dreams in Myth, Medicine, and Movies

Author : Sharon Packer
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : 0275972437
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (597 downloads)

Download Dreams in Myth, Medicine, and Movies in PDF Full Online Free by Sharon Packer and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how dreams have been revered as therapeutic tools, religious revelations, creativity catalysts, sexual symbols, medical miracles, instrospective insights, and meaningful memories, or just dismissed as biological blips and even feared as signs of demonic damnation.

Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films

Author : Sharon Packer, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2014-11-06
ISBN 10 : 9780786472345
Pages : 298 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (234 downloads)

Download Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films in PDF Full Online Free by Sharon Packer, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the gap between science fiction and science fact has narrowed, films that were intended as pure fantasy at the time of their premier have taken on deeper meaning. This volume explores neuroscience in science fiction films, focusing on neuroscience and psychiatry as running themes in SF and finding correlations between turning points in "neuroscience fiction" and advances in the scientific field. The films covered include The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Robocop, The Stepford Wives, The Mind Snatchers and iconic franchises like Terminator, Ironman and Planet of the Apes. Examining the parallel histories of psychiatry, neuroscience and cinema, this book shows how science fiction films offer insightful commentary on the scientific and philosophical developments of their times.

Histories of Dreams and Dreaming

Author : Giorgia Morgese
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2019-06-13
ISBN 10 : 9783030165307
Pages : 343 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (53 downloads)

Download Histories of Dreams and Dreaming in PDF Full Online Free by Giorgia Morgese and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the rise of psychoanalytic interpretation as the dominant mode of studying dreams, an international group of physicians, physiologists, and psychiatrists pioneered scientific models of dreaming. Collecting data from interviews, structured observation, surveys, and their own dream diaries, these scholars produced a large body of early research on the sleeping brain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book uncovers an array of case studies from this overlooked period of dream scholarship. With contributors working across the disciplines of psychology, history, literature, and cultural studies, it highlights continuities and ruptures in the history of scientific inquiry into dreams.

The Nightly Act of Dreaming

Author : Ryan Curtis Friesen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-28
ISBN 10 : 9781782846598
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (659 downloads)

Download The Nightly Act of Dreaming in PDF Full Online Free by Ryan Curtis Friesen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for a shared practice of storytelling around which a popular study of cognitive narratology might form need look no further than our nightly experience of dreams. Dreams and memories are inseparable, complicating and building upon one another, reminding us that knowledge of ourselves based on our memories relies upon fictionalized narratives we create for ourselves. Psychologists refer to confabulation, the creation of false or distorted memories about oneself and the world we inhabit, albeit without any conscious intention to deceive. This process and narrative, inherent in the dreamlife of all people, is at odds with the daily menu of cultural myths and politicized fictions fed to the Western world through print and social media, and for which there is constant divisiveness and disagreement. Cognitive Narratology and the Shared Identity of Myth uses insights gained from the scientific study of dreaming to explain how the shared experience of dreamlife can work in service to the common good. Primary texts and literary works, chosen for their influence on contemporary thinking, provide a rationale and historical background: From Artemidorus (a professional diviner) and Aristotle; to the Church fathers Tertullian, St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Sinesius of Cyrene; to The Wanderer (Old English poem) and Chaucers Book of the Duchess; to Coleridges writings and R. L. Stevensons A Chapter on Dreams; and to twentieth-century dream theory, and dream use in film. The purpose is to enable readers through subjective self-analysis to recognize what they share with their fellow dreamers; shared identity in formation of a shared act of dreaming creation is a universal across centuries and throughout Western culture, albeit currently misrepresented and rarely acted upon.

The Dream Encyclopedia

Author : James R Lewis
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Release Date : 2009-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9781578592715
Pages : 432 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (271 downloads)

Download The Dream Encyclopedia in PDF Full Online Free by James R Lewis and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the fascinating world of dreams, this comprehensive reference examines more than 250 dream-related topics, from art to history to science, including how factors such as self-healing, ESP, literature, religion, sex, cognition and memory, and medical conditions can all have an effect on dreams. Dream symbolism and interpretation is examined in historical, cultural, and psychological detail, while a dictionary—updated with 1,000 symbols and explanations—offers further insights. Dreaming about teeth, for instance, can indicate control issues, and dreaming of a zoo can indicate that the dreamer needs to tidy up some situation. Examining these concepts and more, this is the ultimate dreamer's companion.

CinemaÕs Sinister Psychiatrists

Author : Sharon Packer, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2012-09-06
ISBN 10 : 9780786492411
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (241 downloads)

Download CinemaÕs Sinister Psychiatrists in PDF Full Online Free by Sharon Packer, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari is not cinema’s first psychotic charlatan, but he launches the stereotype of screen psychiatrists who are sicker than their patients. Many film psychiatrists function as political metaphors, while many more reflect real life clinical controversies. This book discusses films with diabolical drugging, unethical experimentation, involuntary incarceration, sexual exploitation, lobotomies, “shock schlock,” conspiracy theories and military medicine, to show how fact informs fantasy, and when fantasy trumps reality. Traditional asylum thrillers changed after hospital stays shortened and laws protected people against involuntary commitment. Except for six short “golden years” from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was.

Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2021-07-31
ISBN 10 : 9781440866173
Pages : 766 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (617 downloads)

Download Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes] in PDF Full Online Free by Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides high school and undergraduate students, and other interested readers, with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field. Provides readers with information about written science fiction in all its forms—novels, stories, plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels Includes original interviews with major writers like Ted Chiang, Samuel R. Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Connie Willis that are not available elsewhere Features numerous sidebars with additional data about various subjects and key passages from several classic works Includes hundreds of bibliographies of sources that provide additional information on various specific topics and the genre of science fiction as a whole

Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters

Author : Markus P.J. Bohlmann
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2015-03-11
ISBN 10 : 9780786494798
Pages : 287 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (479 downloads)

Download Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters in PDF Full Online Free by Markus P.J. Bohlmann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades. Numerous social factors have influenced the popularity and longevity of the monster-child trope but its appeal is also rooted in the dual concepts of the child-like (innocent, angelic) and the childish (selfish, mischievous). This collection of fresh essays discusses the representation of monstrous children in popular cinema since the 1950s, with a focus on the relationship between monstrosity and "childness," a term whose implications the contributors explore.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 0313329516
Pages : 498 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (332 downloads)

Download The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy in PDF Full Online Free by Gary Westfahl and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive three-volume reference work offers six hundred entries, with the first two volumes covering themes and the third volume exploring two hundred classic works in literature, television, and film.

Welcome to Arkham Asylum

Author : Sharon Packer, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2019-12-20
ISBN 10 : 9781476637426
Pages : 311 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (742 downloads)

Download Welcome to Arkham Asylum in PDF Full Online Free by Sharon Packer, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight entertainment, has tackled weighty issues in contemporary psychiatry. Its plotlines reference clinical and ethical controversies that perplex even the most up-to-date professionals. The 25 essays in this collection explore the significance of Arkham's sinister psychiatrists, murderous mental patients, and unethical geneticists. It invites debates about the criminalization of the mentally ill, mental patients who move from defunct state hospitals into expanding prisons, madness versus badness, sociopathy versus psychosis, the "insanity defense" and more. Invoking literary figures from Lovecraft to Poe to Caligari, the 25 essays in this collection are a broad-ranging and thorough assessment of the franchise and its relationship to contemporary psychiatry.

Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry

Author : Marcello Giovanelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-08-15
ISBN 10 : 9781623566333
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (633 downloads)

Download Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry in PDF Full Online Free by Marcello Giovanelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and dream theories to explore reading poems in the light of their emphasis on states of desire, dreaming and nightmares. It accounts for the representation of these states and the ways in which they are likely to be processed, monitored and understood. Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry advances both the current field of cognitive stylistics but also analyses Keats in a way that offers new insights into his poetry. It is of interest to stylisticians and those in literary studies.

Superheroes and Superegos: Analyzing the Minds Behind the Masks

Author : Sharon Packer MD
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2009-12-14
ISBN 10 : 9780313355370
Pages : 275 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (537 downloads)

Download Superheroes and Superegos: Analyzing the Minds Behind the Masks in PDF Full Online Free by Sharon Packer MD and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of essays written by a practicing psychiatrist shows that superheroes are more about superegos than about bodies and brawn, even though they contain subversive sexual subtexts that paved the path for major social shifts of the late 20th century.

Tech-Noir Film

Author : Emily E. Auger
Publisher : Intellect Books
Release Date : 2011-06-01
ISBN 10 : 9781841505404
Pages : 498 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (54 downloads)

Download Tech-Noir Film in PDF Full Online Free by Emily E. Auger and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner to the James Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works OCo including The Matrix, RoboCop, and Mary ShelleyOCOs Frankenstein OCoare discussed with reference to their relationship to tech-noir and one another. Featuring an extensive, clearly indexed filmography, Tech-Noir Film will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more about the development of this new and highly innovative genre."

Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Author : Anthony J. Ferri
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 0739117785
Pages : 124 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (911 downloads)

Download Willing Suspension of Disbelief in PDF Full Online Free by Anthony J. Ferri and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith in Film is a study of the way we watch film. Anthony Ferri explores the way expectations influence what they see, feel, and experience. Using Coleridge's term willing suspension of disbelief as a starting point, Ferri sets forth a fascinating study of the psychology of watching film. While film scholars and professionals have alluded to Coleridge's term in a parenthetical or tertiary manner, this volume makes a definitive account for the concept and provides a contemporary analysis of the film viewing process from a variety of critical and empirical perspectives.Willing Suspension of Disbelief is valuable for film scholars and students of film.

Resilience for Today

Author : Edith Henderson Grotberg
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 0275979849
Pages : 302 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (597 downloads)

Download Resilience for Today in PDF Full Online Free by Edith Henderson Grotberg and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilience is the human capacity to deal with stress and adversity and emerge stronger for the experience. This volume contains ten contributions from members of the helping professions (e.g. psychologists, doctors, teachers) dealing with the fostering of resilience, particularly in children and youth.

Truth and Storytelling

Author : Emily Edwards
Publisher : Anthem Press
Release Date : 2022-03-01
ISBN 10 : 9781785273094
Pages : 332 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (39 downloads)

Download Truth and Storytelling in PDF Full Online Free by Emily Edwards and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to guide writers toward creating more authenticity in visual storytelling. One of the needs for art is the mirror, a reflection of human existence and what is glorious, tragic, wonderful, and funny about life. In an age of “post-truth,” where derivative and grotesquely bogus stories are abundant, globally networked, and digitally streamed, this book examines what it means to both artists and audiences when the mirror is consistently distorted, inaccurate, and biased. The book offers a guide for finding authenticity in fictional narrative, regardless of genre or form. The book is intended as a compass for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create. One element that sets this book apart from others is the use of storyboarding to explain ideas. There are many books that teach fundamentals of writing and producing for the screen, promising the reader great success through formula. This book is a guide for writers in finding their unique creative voice. While the emphasis of this book is on creating scripts intended for production of moving image media, the guide can be adapted to the creativity of various types of storytellers working in a variety of media fields.

Movies and the Modern Psyche

Author : Sharon Packer
Publisher : Greenwood
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : UCSC:32106018800042
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Movies and the Modern Psyche in PDF Full Online Free by Sharon Packer and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how films reflect and influence psychological theories and treatments, and investigates the more general question as to why film and psychology have always been so deeply intertwined.